He may have been wearing a suit, but at that moment Lewis came across as a scared little boy in need of saving.
A week earlier, the councilman for downtown took a vote that even he acknowledged might cost him his seat. Under pressure from far-left activists who had packed council chambers, Lewis cast the deciding vote to reject a proposed ordinance that would have given Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison power to prosecute open-air drug use.
“I came out here on the dais today fully prepared to vote for this measure,” he said, his head hung low. “But this discussion deserves more than this.”
The downtown business community was stunned.
There is no other area of town where drug use is so prevalent, so deadly, and so disastrous for a once-thriving city.
